To support this claim, she concocted a wildly theatrical accent that combined those of movie stars she considered royalty, such as Zsa Zsa Gabor or Marlene Dietrich, with those of French chanteuses, Russian ballerinas, and imaginary Romanian countesses, adding occasional Britishisms adopted from her cousin-by-marriage, Jean Alfus.

With the blessing of original translator Sasha Dugdale, Seiden, Amato and Olena Kushch, a Ukrainian student from Studio's Acting Conservatory, spent three months "taking out all the Britishisms and going back to the original Russian and putting a lot of the Russian flavor back in," Seiden says.

Lomas's Britishisms ("carriageloads," "waggon wheels" which have nothing to do with the Prairie Schooner, "paper kiosk," "lads") will bring only a gentle smile to American lips, but a question remains: what on earth is "shippen warmth," which appears in "The Long Train"?

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